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Join the Concordia Ethnography Lab on March 21st for the second edition of the Manuscript Workshops.
The purpose of each workshop is to help the author with a portion of the manuscript for a book they’re working on. The text will be shared two weeks beforehand so that attendees have time to read it and can come to the workshop ready for a constructive and generative discussion of the text. If If you’d like to learn more about writing, editing and publishing this workshop series is for you!
This session will focus on Nayrouz Abu-Hatoum’s upcoming book, The Art of Political Imagination: Shaping Palestinian Epistemologies Amidst Political Uncertainty.
This work examines the world of contemporary Palestinian visual artists living in the central cities of the West Bank. It focuses on their utilization of art as a tool for liberation and a craft of insurgent political imagination against settler colonialism. A central argument of the book is that art forms a vital thread within a wider web of Palestinian epistemology.
Through their work, artists create, retell, and archive knowledge and shape Palestinian ontology and worldmaking—past, present and future. They are creators of images and imaginaries that gather communities and contribute to national and political discourses. By highlighting the resilience of Palestinian creativity in the face of colonial oppression and erasure, the book underscores the importance of rearticulating the role of art in the Palestinian struggle, by focusing on artists who came of age politically and artistically after the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000.
Sowparnika Balasingham, Balbir Singh, and Lisa Stevenson will lead the discussion. This is a brown bag lunch format, so please bring something to eat if you would like to.
:March 21, 2025 | 12-2 PM
: Speculative Life room EV 10.625
To sign up, please email the Concordia Ethnography Lab by March 7.
Attendance is limited in order to ensure a good discussion.